News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-13
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOEABLE EVENTS THAT ARE
THOUGHT WORTHY OF RE
CORD.
A Woman of Nerve-A Vegetarian
The Garden Spider A Snake
story-A Queer Will, Etc, Etc.

A Woman of Nerve-A Vegetarian
The Garden Spider Snake
Story-A Queer Will, Etc, Etc.
A SMALL garden spider had spun his
web IN corner where a perpendicular
column and a horizontal rail met, and
from the ambush of a hidden crack
awaited his dipterous prey. A hand
some yellow wasp passing that way es-
pied the graceful trap and made for it.
Setting his feet lightly on two or three
OF the meshes, he started up great buzz
zing, which shook the web from end to
end. The watchful spider ran out lit
tie way, stretched forth a delicate foot
to make sure of the location of the sup
posed fly, and then rushed for it, alight-
ing on the wasp with a gleeful Jump
and no doubt a grin of hideous triumph
But Mr.. Spider had reckoned without
his host. Like flash of lightning the
wasp's six nimble legs closed upon him,
the graceful body bent nearly double,
and once, twice, thrice, again and again,
the sharp sting pierced the luckless
spider. As his struggles grew fainter
and finally ceased, the wasp, with a
spring, disentangled himself from the
silken net and bore away his spidery
victim in triumph.
A LAWYER of my acquaintance, with
whom 1 lunched yesterday at the club,
told me about queer will which was
lately laid before him in his professional
capacity. The testator, physician of
considerable wealth, after providing lib
orally for his family, left in trust the
sum of $4,000, the income of which
was to be paid over annually to "some
pro essiona man who has failed III life, "
the trustees having the power to trans
fer the income from one person to an
other if they should see fit. Several of
the heirs and the residuary legatee, he
told me, desired to contest the will on
the ground that this strange bequest
was too indefinite to be sustained in law.
What is failure, and who can undertake
to say that So-and-so has failed in life,
whereas So=and-so has succeeded This
would have been their line of argument
if the case had C me into Court; but it
was finally resolved to accept the will
as it stands; and the sum of $500 or 5000
will be at the disposal of the trustees
annually for the purpose indicated.
Mr.. PUGH KIRKLAND, who has been
away for some days visiting relatives,
has returned and closes the season by the
following snake story: 1t seems that he
and others were fishing, when he dis
covered a very large water moccasin
near by. Providing himself with
stick, he gave battle and soon succeeded
in annihilating his writhing antagonist.
Conceive his horror, however, when i'm
mediately another live and well snake
crawled from the mouth of the dead
one and continued the fight. 1t in turn
was finally dispatched, when behold
another one, Just size smaller, appear
ed ON the scene, and again the battle
proceeded with fury. Having disposed
of this one, still another came to the
front, which in turn was followed by
others, until he had slain fifteen or
fifty-one, and we have forgotten which.
But at any rate they were still coming
promptly to time as every round was
called, when Pugh become exhausted
and threw up the sponge and betook |
himself to flight.
THERE IS perpendicular cliff on the |
WestpOrt shore in the Sesanoa River, !
Lincoln county, Me-, rising more than
Here, as early as 1916, one Dagget, an
Indian trader, used to moor his sloop
beneath the preeipitous wall, and carry
on trade with the Indians on the sum-
nit They lowered down their furs to
him in his boat and hoisted up his
goods in return. Protected from sud
den assaults by this towering cliff side
he called it his castle, and painted high
up on its surface hand as a sign of
amity. On the face of this cliff there is
the figure of an Indian with bow, pro |
duced by natural stains in the rock.
The resemblance to a human figure IS
very striking. When the British cane
up in 1914 to lay Wiscasset under con- !
tribution they reported this rock to be
as high as st. Pau's steeple and alive
with militiamen.
recently in Mexico, says: can old Mex
lean soldier told me that it was the
American sharp shooters that broke up |
their troops. All over Mexico you find
what are called arroyas They are what |
we would call gulches and occur every
where in the plains. They have precip- |
itOus banks and men sometimes walk |
into them without seeing them. They |
seem to be the riffs Mt the bottom of a |
sea which one day may have covered the |
country. The American rifemen would |
drop into these arroyas, which formed |
natural rifle pits for them, and having |
superior rifles for those days were able |
to pick off the Mexicans before the latter |
got within shooting distance with their |
bell-mouth guns. The slaughter that |
resulted always broke up the Mexicans
before they got within fighting dis
lance.
INA YEAR of earthquake and disaster
Charleston has rebuilt city, and, at
one and the same time, enlarged and |
extended the city's business. The |
record is so marvellous that comment |
seems out of place. Simple facts speak |
more eloquently than words can speak
of the audacious courage, the unfag
ging perseverance, and the moral, intel
lectual and financial force of Charleston.
Mark these truths of the earthquake
year: Six thousand nine hundred and |
fifty-six residences and other buildings
rebuilt or repaired; 271 new buildings
erected, a town in itself. The cost of |
rebuilding and repairs, 1924, IT'S. |
Charleston spent and spends on this
work $1,000 600. No suspension of |
business even while and when the once
solid earth was quaking. There is the
glory of the story.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, has
among its inhabitants a woman of rare
nerve She was in the garden when
something bit her neck. She put her
hand to the place and centipede curled
around her forefnger. She brushed it
off, ran into the house, and, finding the
ammonia bottle empty, took a big knife
and stuck the blade into the fire in the
stove until it got hot, when she applied
it to the wound Next she took some
soda and applied that, fastening it by
wrapping cloth around her neck. BY
this time her neck began to swell, and
she says she felt as if the top of her
head was coming right off; but in a
short time she felt greatly relieved, and
then she told her daughter what had
happened.
DR. j. HANEY LOWELL of Philadel-
phia is q most pronounced vegetarian,
believing that eating meat is the cause
of untold evils. He even thinks that
vegetarianism is the best remedy for in
temperance. His theory is that flesh
eating men have an abnormal taste for
drink and that if men will only confine
themselves to vegetable food the desire
for drink viii be antagonized. "No
man." he says, ''whO eats pound Of
daily will become drunkard
What we want is q Temperance vegeta-
rian restaurant, where young men may
be banquetted on macaroni, beans and